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RDP Queens Hockey Season Preview: ready to defend back-to-back championships
The Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) Queens Hockey team will hit the ice this week for their 2023/2024 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) season and start their quest to defend their championship t...
Oct 04, 2023
Ponoka man ordered to stand trial in alleged human trafficking and sexual assault case
A Ponoka man accused of human trafficking and sexual assault has been ordered to stand trial.Christopher Becks, 37, was ordered to stand trial on Sept. 28, 2023, in Edmonton Court of Justice following...
Oct 04, 2023
Canada's Kamal Miller relishes move to Inter Miami and playing with Messi
Enjoying life on and off the field, Kamal Miller has found a new home in South Florida. The Canadian international defender has become a fixture in the Inter Miami CF backline since arriving in an Apr...
Oct 04, 2023
Upcoming First Thursday concert brings a celtic flair to the library
The Friends of the Red Deer Public Library (Downtown Branch) will be bringing a celtic flair to their First Thursday concert this week. On October 5, Tracie Skeet-Brook and Marlene Skeet, better known...
Oct 04, 2023
Montreal transit special constables poised to receive pepper-gel weapon
Montreal's public transit authority is poised to equip its security officers with cayenne pepper aerosol gel, pending approval from its board at a meeting this evening. The officers, known as special ...
Oct 04, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Ottawa to fund further study of possible Winnipeg landfill search
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the federal government will put $740,000 towards further assessing the feasibility of searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the r...
Oct 04, 2023
Airline caterer named in Quebec class action denies exploiting foreign workers
MONTREAL - A French airline caterer is denying that it knowingly employed undocumented workers at its Montreal facilities or that it used their precarious status to exploit them. Newrest, which prepar...
Oct 04, 2023
Rideau Hall apologizes for honouring Nazi veteran with Order of Canada in 1987
OTTAWA - Rideau Hall says it deeply regrets that a man who fought for a Nazi unit in the Second World War was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987. Peter Savaryn was chancellor of the University o...
Oct 04, 2023
Claimant in Nygard trial says shame, fear for career prevented her coming forward
TORONTO - One of the women who has accused former fashion mogul Peter Nygard of sexual assault has told jurors at his Toronto trial that she was afraid to come forward for years following the alleged ...
Oct 04, 2023
Quebec police arrest 10 over alleged grandparent scams linked to organized crime
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say they have arrested 10 people in connection with an alleged grandparent fraud scheme linked to organized crime. Sgt. Catherine Bernard says officers are still lo...
Oct 04, 2023